Beautiful Ruins
Author(s): Jess Walter
The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an apparition- a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying.
And the story begins again today, half a world away in Hollywood, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot searching for the woman he last saw at his hotel fifty years before.
Gloriously inventive, funny, tender and constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a novel full of fabulous and yet very flawed people, all of them striving towards another sort of life, a future that is both delightful and yet, tantalizingly, seems just out of reach.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin UK
- : Penguin UK
- : 0.193
- : 31 July 2019
- : ---length:- '18.1'width:- '11.1'units:- Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jess Walter
- : 813.6
- : English
- : 1909
- : Paperback